The firearm thread

[Mr Merde]

As always gentlemen..........Pictures please

-Indy

The whole rifle



The lockwork, note the name "Whitworth"



The hexagonal bore for the hexagonal bullet


The bullet it fires

[Drunken Monkey]

Should have put this up for sale here first: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=289436012

It is the Remington 597 in .22 magnum you may have seen me use in the past. If you're one of the regulars at Merde's and you're interested in this, let me know I can pull the ad.

[Rogue Rider]

Guns and bikes, they go hand in hand.

[Indiana_Jones]

Looking nice Chris! Will have to come down to see it in person when it comes

And I'll have to pass DM, good luck with the sale

-Indy

[Mr Merde]

Since you lot are my mates and I have to tell someone I will make this announcement in this thread.

My youngest son, Jonathan, has just broken up with his girlfriend of 2 years, and like all 20 year olds he is devastated.

He has been talking to his Aunties and cousins on facebook and finally he has spoken to me ( his old man).

The decision has been made. He is comming over to live with me in NZ. Applying for his NZ citizenship and passport etc. I an guesstimating that he will be here in mid July once he has finished his college course.

He will be all alone except for his massive NZ family so I want you lot to meet the liuttle fella (6'1").

I'm not going to be able to support him all by myserlf so he will need to go for a job. He is jusdt finishing a computer course in the UK so I told him to bring all his references and certificates. While at college he has held down 2 bar jobs in Cardiff sio he is not adverse to wortking.

I havent seen him in 5 years. It is strange and exciting at the same time.

He will need friends.


Chris

[jono035]

Since you lot are my mates and I have to tell someone I will make this announcement in this thread.

My youngest son, Jonathan, has just broken up with his girlfriend of 2 years, and like all 20 year olds he is devastated.

He has been talking to his Aunties and cousins on facebook and finally he has spoken to me ( his old man).

The decision has been made. He is comming over to live with me in NZ. Applying for his NZ citizenship and passport etc. I an guesstimating that he will be here in mid July once he has finished his college course.

He will be all alone except for his massive NZ family so I want you lot to meet the liuttle fella (6'1").

I'm not going to be able to support him all by myserlf so he will need to go for a job. He is jusdt finishing a computer course in the UK so I told him to bring all his references and certificates. While at college he has held down 2 bar jobs in Cardiff sio he is not adverse to wortking.

I havent seen him in 5 years. It is strange and exciting at the same time.

He will need friends.


Chris

I'll keep my ears open for any IT related jobs, but not really my field. If he's a shooter or biker then he'll be fine around here, if not then are you sure he's really yours? :P

Edit: Actually, he's coming in from the UK which means he's probably neither, but I'm sure we can change that...

[Mr Merde]

He wants to do both. Need to get him on 2 wheels and on 4 as well as working.

Only problem is that he is a Liverpool supporter.

I'vve been on the DIA site getting all the forms ready to claim his citizenship.

Spoken to his Aunties and they are gioing to organise the family over here to chip in for his airfare.

[jono035]

Only problem is that he is a Liverpool supporter.

Oh, those are the people that run around on the grass aimlessly after a round thing then occaisionally get close to each other, trip over and then start crying and screaming at the guy in the stripy shirt that someone was bullying them, right?

[Mr Merde]

Thats the game.

Jon actually got banned from the Liverpool website for taking the piss out of the other supporters

Just like his old man

[jono035]

Lol, that sounds like a sport that I could thoroughly enjoy...

[Drunken Monkey]

I thought the sign above the door said "No Scousers"...ohshit I was wrong, it said "No fucking scouse wankers"...

;P

Nah, just kidding, I'm sure he'll be alright. Got plenty of I.T. contacts, and people are starting to hire again (feck, someone just hired me finally, so it must be getting better).

PS - Jono, my 597 has some bids on it now, so it will probably be gone by the start of next week. Don't lose that Ruger!

[Swoop]

Not quite "firearms", but I thought the numbers discovered each year was interesting.

In Germany, several pigs foraging for food, dug up a World War II era anti-tank rocket. This was the single shot Panzerfaust, a cheap weapon that Russians later modified into the multi-shot RPG series of rocket launchers. Over six million Panzerfausts were manufactured by 1945, and thousands are still buried throughout Germany, Russia, Italy and France. Many have been removed from collapsed buildings in cities that were fought over during World War II, and then rebuilt. The Panzerfaust was an ideal weapon for knocking out tanks in urban areas.
The bomb squad was called to carefully remove the Panzerfaust, because the explosives still have some bang left in them. European bomb squads still get lots of practice doing this sort of thing. The most dangerous jobs involve larger munitions.

Two years ago, three unexploded World War II allied bombs were found outside the German town of Kaiserslautern. Here, during World War II, 60 percent of the buildings in the area were destroyed by allied bombs. Many of those bombs did not go off, and were buried in the rubble. Since then, every few years, more are uncovered. The recent find was a hundred meters from a rail line, and 300 from a residential neighborhood. Everything in the area was shut down for half a day, as bomb disposal teams came in to disarm the weapons and haul them away.

World War II era munitions continue to show up throughout Europe. Although most of the millions of land mines were removed from Europe within a few years of the war ending in 1945, there are still a huge number of unexploded of grenades, shells, rockets and bombs buried all over the place. At least the mine fields were easy to find, although dangerous to clear. But the remaining munitions were left behind, in unrecorded locations, for some pretty simple reasons. First of all, many bombs, artillery and mortar shells (over ten percent, for some manufacturers) do not explode when they are supposed to, but just buried themselves into the ground. These shells are still full of explosives, and often have a fuze that, while defective, is often still capable of going off if disturbed. Other munitions were left in bunkers, or elsewhere on the battlefield, and got buried and lost. Most of these lost munitions eventually get found by farmers, or anyone digging up the ground for construction. London and Berlin, two of the most heavily bombed cities during World War II, still suffer from construction crews unearthing unexploded bombs.

The problem goes back farther than World War II. Unexploded munitions from the World War I, which ended in 1918, and the American Civil War, which ended in 1865, are still showing up, and some of them are still deadly. Currently, over a thousand World War II munitions are discovered each year in Europe.

[Indiana_Jones]

AKA 'The Iron Harvest'

-Indy

[jono035]

AKA 'The Iron Harvest'

-Indy

From Swoop:
"World War II era munitions continue to show up throughout Europe." etc.

From Wikipedia:Iron Harvest
"The harvest generally applies to the material from The Great War of 1914 - 1918 which is still found in large quantities across the former Western Front."

Reading comprehension fail?

Edit: "By extension, the term is sometimes used to describe the unexploded ordnance left behind after any major battle or war."

Perhaps I should have read past the first paragraph, fail-accusation fail?

[Indiana_Jones]

From Swoop:
"World War II era munitions continue to show up throughout Europe." etc.

From Wikipedia:Iron Harvest
"The harvest generally applies to the material from The Great War of 1914 - 1918 which is still found in large quantities across the former Western Front."

Reading comprehension fail?

Edit: "By extension, the term is sometimes used to describe the unexploded ordnance left behind after any major battle or war."

Perhaps I should have read past the first paragraph, fail-accusation fail?

lol

-Indy